Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Data Lakes
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Data Lake skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 25 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 1 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.44% 1.65% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.22% 10.00% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% +6.67%
North East median daily rate - £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +6.67%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Tyne and Wear

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 45 30 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.00% 16.48% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 18
10th Percentile £411 £371 £333
25th Percentile £434 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £545
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -12.84% +3.81%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £600
90th Percentile £746 £600 £694
North East median daily rate £500 £475 £533
% change year-on-year +5.26% -10.80% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £36.00 - -

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Tyne and Wear

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne -6 1 - - 3
Data Lake
North East

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks